Copyright, Copyleft and Information Ethics

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How do you and your community respond, use and reflect on their use and reliance on digital media in the 21st Century?

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You teach students to care about their
own digital footprints–and monitor them
using people search tools.


You encourage students to develop
academic–NOT invisible–digital footprints.


You teach students about norms
for appropriate behavior in wikis and blogs.


You model respect for intellectual property
in a world of shift and change. You encourage and
guide documentation for media in all formats.


You lead students to Web-based
citation generators and note-taking tools
to guide them in these efforts.


You recognize and lead students and teachers
to the growing number of
copyright-friendly or //copyleft// portals.


You understand Creative Commons licensing
and you are spreading its gospel.


You encourage learners to apply Creative
Commons licenses to their own creations.


You are revising and expanding your notion of
Fair Use in line with the Code of Best Practices
in Fair Use for Media LiteracyEducation .


You say “yes” a lot more. You know that in their
creative remixes and mash-ups, students may use the
copyrighted works of others in their own work without
asking permission under certain conditions. You are
discussing transformativeness with students and faculty.
(See The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy
and Fair use and transformativeness: It
may shake your world)


You use a tool for reasoning whether a proposed
use is Fair Use. (Tool for reasoning Fair Use.pdf)
You ask students to ask these two questions when
they are using the copyrighted work of others in
their own media:
1. Did the unlicensed use transform the material taken
from the copyrighted work by using it for a
different purpose thanthat of the original, or did
it just repeat the work for the same intent and
value as the original?
2. Was the material taken appropriate in kind and amount,
considering the nature of the copyrighted
work and of the use? (From the Code of Best
Practicesin Fair Use for Media Literacy Education)